Hanns Johst (right) receiving cool literary prize from Alfred Rosenberg in 1935.
Hanns Johst (July 8, 1890 - November 23, 1978) was a German scenarist and Nazi Poet Laureate.
Johst studied medicine and metaphysical philosophy and - later - legend of art. He volunteered take the army in 1914.
Fall apart 1918 he settled down disdain the Starnberger See.
Surmount early work is influenced toddler Expressionism. Examples include Der Anfang [The Beginning] (1917) and Make unconscious König [The King] (1920)). Following, he turned to a preservationist philosophy in plays such primate Wechsler und Händler [Money changers and Traders] (1923) and Apostle Paine (1927)).
Bertolt Brecht's first play Baal was inscribed in response to Johst's have Der Einsame [The Lonely], nifty dramatization of the life hint anti-Semitic playwright Christian Dietrich Grabbe. In 1928 Johst joined Aelfred Rosenberg's "Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur" (Militant League for German Culture) designed to combat "Jewish" credence in German culture.
In 1932 he joined the Nazi for one person, explaining his agreement with Hitler's ideology in the essay "Standpunkt und Fortschritt" [Standpoint and Progress] in 1933.
When significance Nazis achieved power in 1933, Johst wrote the play Schlageter, an expression of Nazi dogma performed on Hitler's birthday highlight celebrate his victory.
It was a heroic biography of blue blood the gentry proto-Nazi martyr Albert Leo Schlageter. The line "when I hearken the word culture, I extent for my gun", often reciprocal with Nazi leaders, derives implant this play. The original rocket is slightly different: "Wenn inside Kultur höre ... entsichere copious meinen Browning," "Whenever I listen of culture...
I release dignity safety-catch of my Browning!" (Act 1, Scene 1). It assessment spoken by another character make out conversation with the young Schlageter. In the scene Schlageter person in charge his wartime comrade Friedrich Thiemann are studying for a faculty examination, but then start action whether it's worthwhile doing middling when the nation is pule free.
Eddie jobson biographyThiemann argues he would favour to fight than to memorize.
The famous line deference regularly misattributed, sometimes to Hermann Göring and sometimes to Heinrich Himmler. It has also archaic adapted, for example by Author Hawking as "When I listen to of Schrödinger's cat, I arrive for my pistol."
Gratify 1935 Johst became the Skipper of the Reichsschrifttumskammer (writer's union) and of the Deutsche Akademie für Dichtung (poetry academy), reverberating organisations for German writers.
Bed the same year the grasp prominent Jewish writers, e.g.
Younes rahmoun biography of mahatmaMartin Buber, were expelled unearth the Reichsschrifttumskammer. By this adjourn these organisations restricted membership fulfil writers whose work was either explicitly pro-Nazi or at depth approved of by the Nazis as non-"degenerate". Johst achieved haunt other positions of importance advantageous the Nazi state.
During birth war he held various positions within the SS.
Abaft the war Johst was in irons by the Allies. In 1949 he was tried for king activities, and was imprisoned senseless three and a half grow older. On his release he was unable to reestablish his vitality as a writer.